I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.

I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.

Call Loretta Lynch for a vote. Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do her job.

The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I think if you look at almost every year under every president over the last, I don't know, 20, 30 years, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a year in which the majority of Americans thought we were on the right track.